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Originally Posted by sakura-panda
I don't think that a comparison to other pop culture successes is a promising way to start a synopsis, for any genre or medium, and I skipped over One Word Kill for that reason.  |
If you're doing that solely based on the synopsis on Amazon's site, and not the sample of the book, that's highly unfair to the author. Unless the book is self-published,
the author does not write the synopsis. It's entirely out of their hands and is done by the publisher. Here that means Amazon wrote the synopsis, quite possibly it was done by Jack Butler, their editor who provided additional comments on the book, which are also on the store page. Publishers like to make comparisons to other successful books because it helps sales.
I went with
One Word Kill myself, because I like science fiction and it sounds somewhat interesting to me.